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Title Notebook sketches for Three Satie Spoons and Satie for Two
Maker Yvonne Rainer (American, b. 1934)
Date 1961–62
Type sketches and materials
Location Getty Research Institute, Yvonne Rainer Papers, 2006.M.24, box 1, folder 4

These notebook sketches show Yvonne Rainer combining multiple forms of scoring and description in order to articulate the dances Three Satie Spoons (1961), The Bells (1961), and Satie for Two (1962). There are aerial views of a hypothetical performance space marked by lines showing the trajectories of individual dancers. Color-coded tables list out the count lengths of certain movement sequences. Figure studies and stick figures show how a body should pose at specific moments. And there are elaborate textual descriptions that read as if Rainer were speaking them aloud as she was teaching or watching the dance.

Used with Permission. © Yvonne Rainer.

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Rainer, Yvonne. Notebook sketches for Three Satie Spoons and Satie for Two, 1961–62. Getty Research Institute, Yvonne Rainer Papers, 2006.M.24, box 1, folder 4. In The Scores Project: Experimental Notation in Music, Art, Poetry, and Dance, 1950–1975, ed. Michael Gallope, Natilee Harren, and John Hicks. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2025. https://www.getty.edu/publications/scores/object-index/470/.

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